Hawthorne Terms/Literary Terms
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dramababe325 on December 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Vicissitudes | Change in life or fortune |
| Sedulously | Carefully done |
| Vagaries | Unpredictable or erratic in action |
| Vacuity | Lacking thought or intelligence |
| Grave | A tomb or something that represents death |
| Grovel | To humble one's self or to beg |
| Innumerable | Very numerous or countless; unable to be counted |
| Mirth | Happiness |
| Impious | Disrespectful toward God or religion |
| Catechizing | To instruct by means of questions and answers |
| Virulent | Poisonous, toxic, or harmful |
| Lurid | Gruesome or disturbing |
| Allegory | Story in which characters and actions represent moral ideas and qualities |
| Alliteration | Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words |
| Allusion | Reference to a work or event in another work |
| Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Couplet | Two rhyming lines in a row |
| Gothic Tale | Story with scary characters and creepy setting |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| Inversion | A change in the normal order of syntax |
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